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I an running Firefox 146 on Window 11. It has taken to storing large quantities of information in a folder in my profile storage>permanent>chrome>idb. I can delete that information but I can't
find a setting to stop Firefox putting information there in the first
place. There must be a setting: can someone please point me to it?
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On 12/18/2025 7:17 AM, BrightonRock wrote:

I an running Firefox 146 on Window 11. It has taken to storing large quantities of information in a folder in my profile storage>permanent>chrome>idb. I can delete that information but I can't
find a setting to stop Firefox putting information there in the first
place. There must be a setting: can someone please point me to it?

Some time ago, I noticed that Firefox, SeaMonkey (my preferred browser
but not my E-mail client), and Thunderbird all have this problem.
Weekly, I backup my entire system. First. however, I run some scripts
to delete blocks of data I do not want to save. One of the scripts
deletes the contents of the default, permanent, and temporary folders
and the folders themselves from storage.
--

David E. Ross
<http:www.rossde.com>

Some Republican officials have denounced the assassination
of Charlie Kirk as a conspiracy by liberal Democrats. Why
then is the attempted kidnapping of the Democrat governor
of Michigan, the shooting of a Democrat state senator of
Minnesota, and the assassination of the Democrat speaker
of the Minnesota state assembly not denounced as a
conservative Republican conspiracy?

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"David E. Ross" wrote:

BrightonRock wrote:

I an running Firefox 146 on Window 11. It has taken to storing large

quantities of information in a folder in my profile
storage>permanent>chrome>idb. I can delete that information but I can't
find a setting to stop Firefox putting information there in the first
place. There must be a setting: can someone please point me to it?

Some time ago, I noticed that Firefox, SeaMonkey (my preferred browser
but not my E-mail client), and Thunderbird all have this problem.
Weekly, I backup my entire system. First. however, I run some scripts
to delete blocks of data I do not want to save. One of the scripts
deletes the contents of the default, permanent, and temporary folders
and the folders themselves from storage.

If you block a domain from saving cookies, does that not also block it
from saving "stuff" to persistent storage?
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On 18/12/2025 15:17, BrightonRock wrote:

I an running Firefox 146 on Window 11. It has taken to storing large quantities of information in a folder in my profile storage>permanent>chrome>idb. I can delete that information but I can't
find a setting to stop Firefox putting information there in the first
place. There must be a setting: can someone please point me to it?

What happens if you make that folder read-only (if you have permission
to do that)?
--
Jeff
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On 18/12/2025 15:17, BrightonRock wrote:

I an running Firefox 146 on Window 11. It has taken to storing large quantities of information in a folder in my profile storage>permanent>chrome>idb. I can delete that information but I can't
find a setting to stop Firefox putting information there in the first
place. There must be a setting: can someone please point me to it?

Privacy & Security >> History >> Use Custom settings for history >>
Check the three boxes shown in this image.

Now you will always have clean start when you launch FF. No more temp
files in your profile.

<https://postimg.cc/XG9mL4GW> <https://i.postimg.cc/76R4xLq5/2025-12-18-22-10-44.png>


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On 12/18/2025 10:41 AM, Andy Burns wrote:

"David E. Ross" wrote:

BrightonRock wrote:

I an running Firefox 146 on Window 11. It has taken to storing large

quantities of information in a folder in my profile
storage>permanent>chrome>idb. I can delete that information but I can't
find a setting to stop Firefox putting information there in the first
place. There must be a setting: can someone please point me to it?

Some time ago, I noticed that Firefox, SeaMonkey (my preferred browser
but not my E-mail client), and Thunderbird all have this problem.
Weekly, I backup my entire system. First. however, I run some scripts
to delete blocks of data I do not want to save. One of the scripts
deletes the contents of the default, permanent, and temporary folders
and the folders themselves from storage.

If you block a domain from saving cookies, does that not also block it
from saving "stuff" to persistent storage?

I have set the properties for cookies.sqlite to "read only", but I still
get data in persistent storage.
--

David E. Ross
<http:www.rossde.com>

Some Republican officials have denounced the assassination
of Charlie Kirk as a conspiracy by liberal Democrats. Why
then is the attempted kidnapping of the Democrat governor
of Michigan, the shooting of a Democrat state senator of
Minnesota, and the assassination of the Democrat speaker
of the Minnesota state assembly not denounced as a
conservative Republican conspiracy?

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"David E. Ross" wrote:

I have set the properties for cookies.sqlite to "read only", but I still
get data in persistent storage.

If you've prevented writes to cookies.sqlite in an unorthodox fashion, I expect you'd need to do similar to prevent writes to the storage folder?

I was meaning on a per domain basis Settings/privacy&security/cookies&siteData/manageExceptions

reading the description on that dialogue (and the manage browsing data dialogue) implies it affects persistent storage as well as cookies?

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Clear History wrote:

On 18/12/2025 15:17, BrightonRock wrote:

I an running Firefox 146 on Window 11. It has taken to storing large
quantities of information in a folder in my profile
storage>permanent>chrome>idb. I can delete that information but I can't
find a setting to stop Firefox putting information there in the first
place. There must be a setting: can someone please point me to it?

Privacy & Security >> History >> Use Custom settings for history >>
Check the three boxes shown in this image.

Now you will always have clean start when you launch FF. No more temp
files in your profile.

<https://postimg.cc/XG9mL4GW> <https://i.postimg.cc/76R4xLq5/2025-12-18-22-10-44.png>

I clear cache that way (via "Settings"), but no way am I going to clear
the other stuff. Since my FF is 140.6.0esr, this should have been
resolved by the time the esr line moves to a new base level.
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On Fri, 19 Dec 2025 11:49:33 +0100, R Daneel Olivaw wrote:

Since my FF is 140.6.0esr, this should have been
resolved by the time the esr line moves to a new base level.

Unless itrCOs actually a Windows problem, not a Firefox problem.
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Lawrence DrCOOliveiro wrote:

On Fri, 19 Dec 2025 11:49:33 +0100, R Daneel Olivaw wrote:

Since my FF is 140.6.0esr, this should have been
resolved by the time the esr line moves to a new base level.

Unless itrCOs actually a Windows problem, not a Firefox problem.

My X-Mailer string is "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:128.0) Gecko/20100101 SeaMonkey/2.53.21"
so if it's a Windows problem, see if I care.
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